Eternal Night

Chapter 238 Everything Will Get Better

Wu Xianxiao stretched out his hand and lifted a huge metal plate off the ground. The surrounding crowd immediately cheered, and then stepped forward and used tracks, metal pliers, and body trailers to drag the metal plate away. The remaining people with small bodies and low levels of alienation began to pick various materials and search for various supplies in the ruins under the metal plate.

Wu Xianxiao took a deep breath, leaned against the broken wall beside him and looked into the distance.

At this time, a person with a display screen on his head, a pair of speakers on his shoulders and a human female's lower body came over, and Li Mucha's smiling face appeared on the display screen.

"I told you to have a good rest. We can take care of these." Li Mucha said with a smile.

Wu Xianxiao shook his head slightly. He looked at the setting sun, turned around and walked out of the camp, saying as he walked, "Today I want to eat grilled whale meat."

Li Mucha was stunned for a moment, and a big smiling face appeared on the screen, with a V-sign next to the smiling face.

"Okay, it's my turn today!"

Eight days after the war.

With the help of Wu Xianxiao, a total of 362 adults and 2,466 children under the age of six were gathered.

These are all the humans left in this world.

Tens of millions of people, but in the end only less than 3,000 people were left...

Moreover, almost all of the 362 adults are in the form of human hunters, with more or less mechanized structures on their bodies. The milder ones are like Li Mucha, where one-fifth of their bodies have turned into mechanical structures. The more serious ones, except for part of their bodies, are almost entirely mechanical structures, which looks extremely grotesque.

But the only lucky thing is that none of them have the symptoms of human hunters. Even if they have more metal structures on their bodies, they still maintain their human thinking consciousness, and there is no further deterioration.

The whole world seemed different, they were just ordinary people with mutated bodies.

As for children under the age of six, they were much better. They basically maintained the physical condition of a normal human being. Although there was a little metallization on their skin or some organs, subsequent physical examinations and genetic tests on their bloodlines showed that they were indeed normal humans.

These are the last hope, and the entire future of human civilization depends on these children.

Wu Xianxiao returned to the camp. Some people in the camp were busy, some were building houses or various functional buildings, some were sorting out various parts and components, making or repairing various instruments, or various foods, such as cutting various pieces of meat, drying them and applying salt on them.

After the war, all the super-large biochemical beasts died.

Their huge bodies are not suitable for being born in normal natural environments. Their own weight alone is enough to crush them to death. Some biochemical beasts that are too strange in shape also died. Only small biochemical beasts with more flesh than mechanical parts survived.

Moreover, they no longer have the madness and brutality they had before, and their nature is gradually changing back to that of animals.

The whole world is becoming more and more normal.

Although the future seemed very far away, and although everyone was filled with great pain, they still stood firm, buried the bodies of their relatives, friends, and comrades, cut off the intact flesh of the biochemical beasts, dug out the ruins before the war, and protected all the children entering the camp...

"…The oldest children have to go to school."

Li Mucha sat next to Wu Xianxiao, with a serious face on the screen. While grilling meat, she said to Wu Xianxiao, "We dug out some books, but we lack enlightenment teaching materials. We discussed and formed a 20-man long-distance excavation team to go to the ruins of the Mercenary Guild headquarters to dig. There should be enlightenment books and teaching materials there."

Wu Xianxiao took a piece of barbecued meat, unzipped the beer can, ate the meat and drank the beer, and asked, "Aren't there more of these things in the Researchers' Guild?"

A tractor driver sitting next to them said, "During the decisive battle, the Researchers' Guild headquarters was besieged and destroyed. The employees inside activated the headquarters' self-destruct system, and all of the new nuclear warheads they secretly manufactured exploded. That place is completely gone."

Wu Xianxiao fell silent, just drinking and eating meat silently. On the other side, a man whose front half was a beautiful woman and whose lower half was a motorcycle said with a smile: "You got what you asked for. These nuclear warheads were probably prepared for the civil war, but now they have become proof of their sacrifice. I think that when our human civilization is revived in the future, we can also erect a monument there."

The people around burst into laughter, but after laughing they felt a little sad. They all ate their food or drank engine oil in silence.

Wu Xianxiao had finished eating the meat. He asked, "What do we need now? If we want sustainable development, this camp has been gradually built up. We have all kinds of equipment and instruments from before the war. The food we have found is enough to last for several years. We also have fresh water. What do we need now?"

The people around looked at each other, discussed in a low voice, and after a moment they all shook their heads.

"There's nothing missing. Most of the bio-beasts are gone."

"Our mutations have also stopped. Although we can't transform back into human form, this body is perfect for construction."

"The children are all safe and sound... Speaking of which, should we set up a production line for antibiotics and various medicines?"

"...Books and the like can be mined slowly, but the key is more advanced scientific knowledge. We are basically just rough people among the 300 or so people, and we don't even have a researcher. We are in great need of these things." "Just take your time. As long as there are no more biochemical beasts and the children grow up, can people still be suffocated to death by urine?"

“That’s true, but I feel like…”

Everyone was talking, and Wu Xianxiao once again ate meat and drank wine in silence.

Then he heard Li Mucha muttering to herself beside him: "We still lack water and land..."

Water and land...it would be more appropriate to say plants and fresh water.

All the fresh water currently is stored fresh water, and the only way to get new fresh water is to dig big holes and extract it from groundwater. At the same time, there are no plants on the land, and the ocean is also brown...

This world is ultimately...

Wu Xianxiao was thinking with some sadness in his heart, and suddenly at this moment his heart moved. An inexplicable palpitation made him stand up from his seat, and at the same time he looked into the distance with a serious expression.

It was night time and except for the camp, the surroundings were quiet. The children were all under six years old and they all went to bed early after dinner, so Wu Xianxiao's sudden standing up seemed unusually abrupt.

Everyone around was stunned, and then everyone suddenly jumped up. Some adults with more human bodies quickly rushed to the children's residence, while those with more mechanical bodies immediately rushed to the surroundings, either holding weapons or standing up their own weapons. They all looked seriously into the darkness, and each of their expressions was filled with determination and resoluteness.

Here... is all that is left of them!
They have nothing left but this last hope. This is not only their hope, but also the hope of their deceased relatives, friends, partners and comrades-in-arms.

Don't... take away their hope again!

"No."

Wu Xianxiao said in a hoarse voice: "Not an enemy..."

Everyone was stunned and stopped their steps and movements. They all looked at Wu Xianxiao inexplicably. Then some people had a strange premonition in their hearts, and with their hearts pounding, they looked into the distance anxiously.

“…It was thundering.”

Wu Xianxiao said this, then silently raised his head and held it high.

Everyone was stunned. They looked into the distance. Suddenly, a flash of lightning appeared in the dark night sky. The huge lightning cut through the pitch-black night and cast a light in everyone's sight.

After the lightning, the rumbling sound of thunder came. The sound shook everyone's ears, eyes, consciousness, and even souls trembled violently. They looked at the sky like fools, completely unable to recognize this natural phenomenon that should have occurred on Earth.

"By the way, it should be February or March now. Spring has arrived." Wu Xianxiao murmured and looked up at the sky.

The thunder roared, tearing the night apart. Amid the roar, cries were heard in the children's barracks. Some petite adults ran into the barracks and began to coax the children, while almost all the other adults stood stupidly in the night. Along with the thunder, there was a strong wind blowing, causing sand and rocks to fly, but no one moved at all. They just looked at the sky stupidly and foolishly.

Finally, after several decades, a natural phenomenon appeared that even all the adults here had never seen since they were born. It was something they only knew about in books and legends...

The rain fell from the sky, sprinkling on the land that had not seen rain in decades, moistening the Gobi desert that had long been dry.

According to legend, some plant seeds can remain dormant for hundreds of years. Even without any fresh water, their lives will continue to be preserved until the rain comes. These seeds will then sprout again and emerge from the hard earth, bringing a small but incomparably strong green to the world.

Facing the rain, all the adults came back to their senses from their shock. They didn't even care whether the mechanical structures on their bodies could withstand water, and they all shouted and cheered in the rain. Even some of the oldest children came out of the barracks, saw this thing they had never seen before, and reached out to catch the rain.

Wu Xianxiao raised his head and tried his best. Rainwater flowed from his eyes to the ground. He seemed to see again the face with black tears and blood, but still smiling brightly, as well as the kind-hearted people standing around her, and the figure who looked a bit like Chu Minghao, leading a group of people who had a blue dream and heading to their deaths in the darkness...

"Mr. Wu! It's raining! Will plants grow? Will the ground be covered with green grass? Will the sea turn blue again?" Li Mucha was chattering beside Wu Xianxiao like a little girl.

Chirps chirped crisply on Wu Xianxiao's shoulder, and Daphne fluttered back and forth in the rain.

Wu Xianxiao stretched out one hand to catch the rain, he lowered his head and smiled.

"Will do……"

“Everything will get better.”

(End of this chapter)